Jennifer Aniston thinks social media stardom has “diluted” actors’ jobs. The “Morning Show” actress feels “lucky” she entered the industry before the Internet had such a dramatic effect, with the rise of streaming services and platforms such as Instagram and TikTok offering an outlet for aspiring stars.
Speaking to “Pam and Tommy” star Sebastian Stan about the theft of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, she said: “And it was right at the time when the internet really shaped a new culture about people becoming famous.
“This thing of people becoming famous for basically doing nothing. I mean — Paris Hilton, Monica Lewinsky, all those. While she and her castmates thought it would be “fun” to go back to the old sets from the sit-com, she wasn’t prepared for how emotional and “creepy” it would feel.
She said: “I don’t know we expected for it to sucker punch us as hard as it did in the emotional gut. We just had the idea this is going to be so fun — we’re going back to the sets exactly the way they were.
“And literally, every single nook on a shelf was the same. It was so creepy. But each and every one of us, we walked in, it was just like, ‘Oh!’ Time travel. It was ’04 when it ended. And we were different. We were so little. Our lives were ahead of us. And so much has changed.
“We kind of had rose-coloured glasses going into it. And then, it was like, ‘This is really a lot heavier than I thought’. But I wouldn’t change a lick of it.
Aniston is grateful for the ongoing support and friendship of her old co-stars and believes the absence of social media at the height of the show’s popularity helped them keep their “sanity”.
Source: People
In other news – TikTok star Cooper Noriega has died
TikTok star Cooper Noriega has died. He was 19. Noriega was pronounced dead at the scene in a Burbank parking lot on Thursday evening, a Los Angeles Medical Examiner-Coroner spokesperson tells PEOPLE.
His cause of death has been deferred, which “means that after an autopsy, a cause of death has not been determined and the medical examiner is requesting more investigation. Learn more
